Viola Davis Is the Latest Actor to Join the HUNGER GAMES Prequel THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES
The Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis (The Help, Fences) is the latest star to join the cast of the anticipated prequel film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. She will take on the role of Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul, in the ensemble led by Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.
Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is returning to the franchise to helm the prequel, based on the books by Suzanne Collins. Michael Lesslie (Macbeth) penned the most recent draft of the screenplay—building on the work of Collins and Oscar winner Michael Arndt (Catching Fire).
The story “picks up with Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) at age 18—years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem—at a point when he’s the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.”
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set to hit theatrers next year. Are you looking forward to this new story?
via: Deadline